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Now that we have added in the ability for key-frame animation with OpenShot, it's only logical that we make it better and faster, right? Announcing Pre-set Animations!
What is a pre-set animation?
It's really quite simple. It's just a key-frame animation that has a simple name, and is already done for you. They are common animations that can be tedious to enter by hand.
A few examples include:
- Zoom In
- Zoom Out
- Animate Left to Right
- Animate Top to Bottom
- Animate Center to Left
- And many more...
[Right click on a clip to see the new menu options]
There is also a new pre-set layout feature, which can quickly change the size of a video clip and position it on the screen. The only difference from the pre-set animation is that layouts are static. In other words, they don't animate.
A few examples include:
- 1/4 Size - Top Left
- 1/4 Size - Center
- 1/4 Size - Bottom Right
On top of all this, many bugs have been fixed, including a few sneaky ones that have been around for awhile. Mainly dealing with dragging and dropping clips on the timeline.
July 30, 2009 3:58 AM
Well done Jonathan!
I was testing these out yesterday, and I can confirm that they work brilliantly.
This must be a unique feature. I have never come across anything like this before.
For fast and efficient workflows, this takes the prize. After a little practice, you can take a collection of AVCHD clips, and edit and composite them all in a couple of minutes. Resulting in a 30 minute movie that takes not much more than the rendering time to prepare, and has all the gloss and pzazz of a video that took days to prepare.
This means for me as an instructor in aerial acrobatics, that I will be able to take a laptop with me to my classes, along with my camera, and produce good videos of my pupils, on-the-fly as it were! They will then have something to take home with them. :-)
The only downside of this is that I now have to re-write that part of the Help Manual, and take a new set of screenshots. ;-)
Best wishes, Helen
July 30, 2009 4:23 AM
Amazing! Looks like that all the base work starts to really bear fruit. This is just more than I've expected. Thank you so much.
And thanks for the documentation team also. And everyone who submits and helps to fix bugs.
July 30, 2009 8:58 AM
Great work. Thank you very much! :)
But could you publish a "real" package version with a fixed set of dependencies instead of providing a packaging wizard which depends on "real time" git versions of x264 and so on?
1.0.4 is out. So why isn't there a package it with a description of the necessary dependencies?
Again: Thanks! :)
July 30, 2009 1:52 PM
Great work!
The only thing that didn't excite me on this app is the ugly blue bottom bar for the timeline and sound. Something integrated with the gtk theme will be appreciable.
July 30, 2009 4:07 PM
Wonderfull Jonathan
@anonymous
soon for the .deb. There are on test and for the blue theme when jonathan will have some time to do another which be an exemple to do another themes differents. All is in progress and your interrest is our motivation.
July 30, 2009 7:30 PM
OpenShot will be a killer-app! :D
I agree with Anonymous: a better GNOME integration would be awesome.
But I think there are much more important priorities now.
August 1, 2009 3:16 AM
hi
it's a great features but not the feature of the century ... this software seems to be a great nle, but specially for helen, look at the other software before post your comment ....it seems you don't know another nle, so it's difficult to compare for you ...
thanks
August 1, 2009 4:20 AM
Hello Anonymous,
The "unique feature" being the very high speed workflow with AVCHD straight off the camera.
I have trialled every Linux NLE I could find, in my search for an efficient way of producing good professional films from an AVCHD camera, on Ubuntu.
I am aware that if I had an 8 core Mac Pro, running Final Cut Studio, I could do this even faster!
Best Wishes, Helen :-)
June 14, 2010 2:55 PM
This i great and working perfectly. (In the setting of making a screencast) I wish it was simpler to have fixed layout of own choice. I now use the same setting in start of clip and end of clip, but it took me 15 min to figure that out. Kind of obvious, but I wish for a effect or extra layout options that are a bit more noob friendly, when i also usually recommend this program to others. Keep up the good work :)